Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

- Stone, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

10.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

11.

Making a life comes before making a living.

12.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

14.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

18.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

23.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

27.

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

30.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

31.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

33.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

34.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

35.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

37.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

42.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson